Alva Clinica Dental
According to our open methodology, this clinic scored 54.1/100 for transparency, reputation, service accessibility, and digital visibility.
Overall rank: #3 of 17 ranked clinics · Last checked: 25 August 2026
Positions by Rating Profile
- Overall Transparency & Trust#354.1/100
- Best for Expats#354/100
- Best for Dental Implants#348/100
- Best for Emergency Dental Carenot ranked
- Best Price Transparency#437.9/100
- Best English-speaking Clinics#259.3/100
- Best for Families / Children#159.2/100
- Sleep Dentistry (GA / deep sedation)not ranked
General Anaesthesia & Deep Sedation
Whether the clinic documents treatment under general anaesthesia or deep / twilight sedation — "sleep dentistry", where the patient is asleep and unaware (does not feel, see, or hear the procedure). Ordinary conscious sedation, where the patient stays awake and responsive, does not count here. This is informational and does not affect the transparency score.
- ? General anaesthesia / deep sedation (sleep dentistry) — Not verified No anaesthesia/sedation info found on clinic website.
Summary
Plaza Marina clinic offering implants, endodontics, periodontics, orthodontics, veneers and pediatric dentistry, using Sirona CAD-CAM technology for same-day crowns. Bilingual website lists dentists and their specialties with WhatsApp contact; prices are not published.
Strengths
- Information Transparency: 20 of 20 points.
Weaknesses
- Price Transparency: 0 of 3 verifiable points (missing: prices or price ranges published)
Score Breakdown
Every criterion below is scored from public sources. ✓ verified yes · ✗ verified no / not found · ◐ partial · ? unverified (scores 0, not a negative finding).
Information Transparency
Whether basic facts about the clinic - its team, premises, services, and location - are publicly verifiable.
| ✓ | Has a working website [s1] | 4/4 |
| ✓ | Dentist names listed [s1] | 3/3 |
| ✓ | Dentist specializations listed [s1] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Real clinic photos [s1] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Service list published [s1] | 3/3 |
| ✓ | Clear contact details [s1] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | English website version [s1] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Address and map published [s1] | 2/2 |
Price Transparency
Whether patients can estimate costs before visiting. Published price ranges count; exact prices are not required.
| ✗ | Prices or price ranges published [s1] | 0/3 |
| ? | Cleaning price listed | 0/2 |
| ? | Filling price listed | 0/2 |
| ? | Crown price listed | 0/2 |
| ? | Implant price listed | 0/2 |
| ? | Consultation price listed | 0/2 |
| ? | X-ray / imaging price listed | 0/2 |
Reputation & Reviews
Public review signals. The Google rating is adjusted with a Bayesian prior (rating 4.0, weight 25) so a 5.0 from a handful of reviews does not outrank a 4.8 from hundreds.
| ✓ | Google rating (Bayesian-adjusted) as of 2026-08-25 [alva-clinica-dental-refresh] | 6/6 |
| ◐ | Google review volume [alva-clinica-dental-refresh] | 2.5/3 |
| ✓ | Review recency [alva-clinica-dental-refresh] | 3/3 |
| ? | Clinic responds to reviews | 0/2 |
| ? | No recurring complaints | 0/2 |
| ? | No suspicious review patterns | 0/2 |
| ✓ | Active Facebook presence [s1] | 1/1 |
| ? | TripAdvisor presence | 0/0.5 |
| ? | Other review platforms | 0/0.5 |
Medical Infrastructure
The range of publicly documented equipment and services. This measures documented availability, not clinical quality.
| ? | On-site X-ray | 0/2 |
| ? | CBCT (3D imaging) | 0/2 |
| ✓ | Implantology [s1] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Orthodontics [s1] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Oral surgery [s1] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Pediatric dentistry [s1] | 1.5/1.5 |
| ? | Emergency care | 0/1.5 |
| ✓ | Works with international patients [s1] | 2/2 |
Communication & Service
How easy it is to contact the clinic, get answers, and book - especially for international patients.
| ✓ | WhatsApp / LINE available [s1] | 2/2 |
| ? | Response speed | 0/1.5 |
| ✓ | English spoken [s1] | 2.5/2.5 |
| ✓ | Pre-visit consultation possible [s1] | 1.5/1.5 |
| ✓ | Clear service explanations [s1] | 1/1 |
| ? | Convenient opening hours | 0/1.5 |
AI & Search Visibility
Whether the clinic is discoverable when patients search - including via AI assistants. Checked with fixed queries: "best dentist Puerto Vallarta", "English speaking dentist Puerto Vallarta", "dental implants Puerto Vallarta", "emergency dentist Puerto Vallarta", "Puerto Vallarta dental clinic for expats".
| ? | Mentioned for: best dentist Puerto Vallarta | 0/1 |
| ? | Mentioned for: English speaking dentist Puerto Vallarta | 0/1 |
| ? | Mentioned for: dental implants Puerto Vallarta | 0/1 |
| ? | Mentioned for: emergency dentist Puerto Vallarta | 0/1 |
| ? | Mentioned for: Puerto Vallarta dental clinic for expats | 0/1 |
| ? | Structured data on website | 0/1.5 |
| ? | Google indexing quality | 0/2 |
| ✓ | Dedicated service pages [s1] | 1.5/1.5 |
Licensing & Credentials
Whether the clinic publishes its operating licence and the dentists working there together with their professional licence numbers. A verified “not published” is recorded as a red flag; data we have not checked yet is shown as unverified and carries no penalty.
Clinic operating licence: not checked against public sources yet — unverified, no penalty
Dentists & professional licences
| Dentist | Specialization | Licence No. |
|---|---|---|
| Dr. Fernando Penalva [s1] [alva-clinica-dental-doclic] | General Dentistry | not verified |
| Dra. Karla Sarmiento [s1] [alva-clinica-dental-doclic] | Periodontics and Implantology | not verified |
| Dra. Diana Andalon [s1] [alva-clinica-dental-doclic] | Pediatric Dentistry | not verified |
Dentists are named; their licence numbers have not been checked against public sources yet — unverified, no penalty.
Red Flags
- low Opaque or bait pricing (-2 pts) — No prices or price ranges published (derived from data).
Red-flag penalty applied: -2 points (capped at -20).
Data We Could Not Verify
- Price Transparency: Cleaning price listed
- Price Transparency: Filling price listed
- Price Transparency: Crown price listed
- Price Transparency: Implant price listed
- Price Transparency: Consultation price listed
- Price Transparency: X-ray / imaging price listed
- Reputation & Reviews: Clinic responds to reviews
- Reputation & Reviews: No recurring complaints
- Reputation & Reviews: No suspicious review patterns
- Reputation & Reviews: TripAdvisor presence
- Reputation & Reviews: Other review platforms
- Medical Infrastructure: On-site X-ray
- Medical Infrastructure: CBCT (3D imaging)
- Medical Infrastructure: Emergency care
- Communication & Service: Response speed
- Communication & Service: Convenient opening hours
- AI & Search Visibility: Mentioned for: best dentist Puerto Vallarta
- AI & Search Visibility: Mentioned for: English speaking dentist Puerto Vallarta
- AI & Search Visibility: Mentioned for: dental implants Puerto Vallarta
- AI & Search Visibility: Mentioned for: emergency dentist Puerto Vallarta
- AI & Search Visibility: Mentioned for: Puerto Vallarta dental clinic for expats
- AI & Search Visibility: Structured data on website
- AI & Search Visibility: Google indexing quality
Unverified items score 0 points but are not treated as negative findings. If you can document any of them, please send a correction.
Contact Information
| Website | https://puertovallartadentist.com/ |
|---|---|
| Phone | +52 322 221 0165 |
| +52 322 229 9843 | |
| https://www.facebook.com/alvadentalclinic | |
| Google Maps | Map listing |
| Address | Francisco Medina Ascencio S/N, Plaza Marina Local G 26, Marina Vallarta, 48335 Puerto Vallarta, Jalisco |
Contact details are provided for identification only and may change; verify with the clinic directly.
Sources
| ID | Source | What it supports | Accessed |
|---|---|---|---|
| s1 | https://puertovallartadentist.com/ | Name, address, phone, WhatsApp, dentists, services, English, Facebook | 2026-07-14 |
| alva-clinica-dental-refresh | https://www.google.com/maps/place/Alva+Cl%C3%ADnica+Dental+Plaza+Ma… | most recent visible review ~2 months before check (~Jun 2026) | 2026-08-25 |
| alva-clinica-dental-doclic | https://cedulaprofesional.sep.gob.mx/cedula/presidencia/indexAvanza… | Searched SEP RNP for 'Fernando Penalva' on 2026-08-25; cedulaprofesional.sep.gob.mx refused the connection (ECONNREFUSED) — registry unreachable, could not verify or falsify the cédula. | 2026-08-25 |
Change History
| Date | Change |
|---|---|
| 2026-08-26 | Link-rot cleanup 2026-08-26: pruning 1 dead source(s) confirmed unreachable in the fleet external-link sweep (checked 2026-08-26) and re-confirmed dead by direct recheck where applicable. alva-clinica-dental-doclic [https://cedulaprofesional.sep.gob.mx/cedula/presidencia/indexAvanzada.action]: https://cedulaprofesional.sep.gob.mx/cedula/presidencia/indexAvanzada.action (attempt1: getaddrinfo EAI_AGAIN cedulaprofesional.sep.gob.mx; attempt2 (+30s): Connect Timeout Error (attempted address: cedulaprofesional.sep.gob.mx:443, timeout: 10000ms), other->stable-dead on recheck) |
| 2026-08-25 | License verification 2026-08-25 against SEP RNP (dentists) and CLUES (clinics): both national registries unreachable from this environment — Alva Clinica Dental's clinic license and its 3 named doctors' cédulas could not be verified; all left null, none marked false. |
| 2026-08-25 | Re-verification 2026-08-25: confirmed website and phone; corrected postal code to 48335 (was 48354 in worklist) and refined address per Maps; captured first Google rating 4.9 (217 reviews); added geo coordinates and Maps URL. |
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